15 Quotes from Powerful Women
If you just need a little inspiration to get going today, we’ve compiled are a few of our favorite uplifting quotes from successful women in business.
Marillyn Hewson – CEO of Lockheed Martin: "Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational."
Njideka Harry - President & CEO of Youth for Technology Foundation: “If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances.”
Debra A. Cafaro – CEO of Ventas, Inc.: “Go through some difficult experiences. If you can live through them and learn from them, you have a much better chance of knowing what to do when the chips are down and everyone else is freaking out.”
Himanshu Bhatia – CEO of Rose International: "As a leader, it's a major responsibility on your shoulders to practice the behavior you want others to follow."
Marissa Mayer - Co-Founder of Sunshine, Former CEO of Yahoo: “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.”
Marillyn Hewson – CEO of Lockheed Martin: "Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they're doing it. That's purpose. And that's the key to achieving something truly transformational."
Indra Nooyi – Former CEO of PepsiCo: “There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention to the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up.”
Weili Dai – Co-Founder & Former President of Marvell Technology Group: “It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.”
Lisa Cash Hanson – CEO of Snuggwugg: "Leadership is the ability to guide others without force into a direction or decision that leaves them still feeling empowered and accomplished."
Sheryl Sandberg – COO of Facebook: "Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence."
Jess Lee – Co-Founder and former CEO of Polyvore: “I’ve always been a bit of an introvert, but just because you don’t fit the classic mold doesn’t mean you can’t be a leader. You just need to find your own style and someone with a similar style who you can learn from.”
Irene Rosenfield – Former CEO of Kraft Foods and Frito Lay: "Our emerging workforce is not interested in command and control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so, they want to do things because they want to do them."
Padmasree Warrior – CEO & Founder of Fable: “The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.”
Sallie Krawcheck – CEO & Co-Founder of Ellevest: “If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough business and career chances."
Arianna Huffington – Founder & CEO of Thrive Global: “We need to accept that we don’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes. Understand that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.”
Author: Emma Chase
Post by: Julia Hudson